Hannah Tompkins

Hannah Minthorne Tompkins ( born August 28, 1781 New York, † February 18, 1829 in Tompkinsville, Staten Iceland ) was the wife of Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States during the administration of James Monroe and thereby Second Lady of the United States.

Hannah Minthorne was the second child of Mangle Minthorne (1740-1824) and his second wife, Aryet Minthorne Constable ( 1743-1830 ). In February 1798 married the 16- year-old Hannah Daniel D. Tompkins, a 23 -year-old lawyer for the city of New York. At the time of marriage, her father was assistant to the Common Council and the young Tompkins planned a political career. From 1800 to 1814 the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800), who married in 1818 a son of Smith Thompson, and Minthorne Tompkins (* December 26, 1807, † June 5, 1881 ), the 1852 candidate for the Free Soil party as governor of New York.

Hannah survived her husband by almost four years. She died on February 18, 1829 in Tompkinsville, Staten Iceland. She and her husband are buried in the family vault of Minthornes in St. Mark's Church in-the- Bowery in Lower Manhattan.